Hi Peter, Thanks for speaking up. I appreciate you being straightforward about what you are interested and not interested in.
If you have time, I'd be interested to hear what in specific you're afraid I'm going to talk about? You said something derisive about "corporate sensitivity training", but that doesn't mean much to me. If there's stuff you've experienced in the past that went badly I'd love to hear about it so I can avoid repeating those mistakes! A minute or two now could save you 15 minutes of pain tonight. :) Best, Erik On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Peter <[email protected]> wrote: > > I would submit that as well intentioned as this effort is, it would be > one of the last things I would want the group to focus on if I were a > woman attending an SDRuby meeting for the fist time. Just my two > cents. > > If Erik can pull it off without what my past experience of these > things has been, than more power to him. Just as long as we don't > have to sign any release forms from HR ;) > > Peter > > > On Jun 4, 12:21 pm, Patrick Crowley <[email protected]> wrote: >> > So I would suggest that if there are people who really want to still >> > spend time on this topic, we should split up into groups at the >> > beginning of the meeting. >> >> In general, I agree with you, Peter. We should mostly stick to >> technical topics. >> >> But, given recent events, I think it's reasonable for us to have a >> short discussion about these issues, and how we can be more inclusive >> as a community. >> >> The rough schedule for tonight's meeting is: >> >> 7:30 - 8:00 HotRuby + jQuery: Ruby in the browser >> 8:00 - 8:15 Happy Fridays demo >> 8:15 - 8:30 Just a Joke? Sexism and the Ruby Community >> 8:30 - 9:30 Hackfest >> >> So, if you want to skip something, you can always step out for a few >> minutes. ;) >> >> I'm pretty excited about tonight's meeting, though. We're setting >> aside an hour for hacking. So please bring your laptops and code! >> >> -- Patrick > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
